10 Creepy Ideas for Halloween Yard Decorations

It’s October, which means it’s time to put up your Halloween decor. Those that are blessed with a sizable backyard will have a lot of room to play with when it comes to enhancing the eerie atmosphere of their property. You can save money by making your own Halloween decorations, which is half the joy of the holiday anyway, so don’t let this extra space put you off decorating for the holiday. These spooky yard decorations may be a fun activity for kids to help them get into the Halloween mood, and you don’t even need to be a creative genius to make them.

1. Floating Ghosts

What you’ll need:

• Foam balls
• Lightweight white cotton fabric (about 1 square yard per ghost)
• Black paper
• Scissors
• Dowels or garden stakes
• Spray adhesive

How they’re made:

Cut your fabric into squares as a first step. When you put the fabric over the foam ball, it should hang well past the ball to make the ghost’s body. For each ghost’s eyes, cut two small ovals out of black construction paper. Put the dowel at least 3′′-4′′ into the foam ball. Spray glue on the top of each foam ball, place the fabric square on top of the ball and press down on the glue at the top.
Plant the ghosts in your yard. Make sure the dowel or garden stake goes at least 6 inches into the ground to help keep the ghosts stable even if it rains or blows.

2. Graves Lit by Soda Can Lights

What you’ll need:

• A can of flat black spray paint
• Clear holiday lights, size C9
• Clean soda cans
• A utility knife
• An unibit  for your drill, 3/16 to 7/8″

How to make them:

Drill a hole in the bottom of each soda can to make a circle. With your utility knife, cut the tops off the soda cans right where they start to narrow (the edges will be sharp, so lightly bend them inward if you wish.) Spray the soda cans with the flat black paint and let them dry for 1 to 2 hours.
If the things you want to show off are already set up, bring the lights and soda cans to your display and figure out how far apart they should be. Remove the bulbs from their places. Put the soda can over the hole, then put the bulb back in. The hole is big enough that they can’s metal won’t touch any metal on the lights. Set up the lights and test them.

3. Sleepy Hollow Scarecrow

What you’ll need:

• Metal post
• PVC pipe
• Pumpkin
• Black cloth
• Black and brown paint
• Sticks and straw

How to make them:

Paint the PVC pipe to look like rotten wood and use sticks to make the ribs, arms, and legs. Use straw as a decoration. Drive the metal post into the ground, then slide the whole prop over the post.
Carve a jack-o’-lantern face into a pumpkin and put it on top of a stake. Cover with black fabric.

4. Drunk Witch

What you’ll need:

• Witch’s costume (hat, cape, stockings, boots)
• Broom
• Prop arms and legs

How to make it:Dress arms and legs in a witch’s costume. Attach to the tree. Attach the hat and cape to the tree. Cut broom to length and insert under the cape.

5. Crime Scene

What you’ll need:

• Fake crime scene tape
• Stakes
• Soil
• Fake blood
• Plastic skeleton

How to make it:

1. Lay plastic skeleton on ground and partially cover with soil.
2. Splatter fake blood around.
3. Hammer a stake into each corner of your crime scene.
4. Drape ‘Crime Scene’ tape around stakes.

6. Pumpkin Victim